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| RandyT:
Ummm. You don't need 60+ inputs..unless you are interested in playing a game where the rules are not based on score. The dartboards don't care where you hit them, only the score need be correct. See where I'm going yet? :) These are the numbers you need: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 24 26 27 28 30 32 34 33 36 38 39 40 42 45 48 51 54 57 60 then 2 for the bullseye for a total of 43 total inputs required. None of this applies if you plan on playing games like "round the clock" or something like that, but if your games focus on score and not position, that's all you need. RandyT |
| SirPoonga:
Right, if all you play is 301. |
| SirPoonga:
If you knew PIC programming you could make an IC that sends values via serial or parallel. Actually, it might not be that hard to do, even for someone who doesn't know much about PIC programming... maybe i will look into something. |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on April 15, 2005, 09:29:35 am ---Right, if all you play is 301. The fun games like cricket require you to know what you hit :) So why limit yourself... --- End quote --- I don't play on the Bar machines, just the one on my wall. It has a half dozen games that all use scoring, as do the majority of the "rules" for games I looked up on the web before posting. *EDIT* Deleted a bunch of incorrect junk about making your own matrix. Deleted as not to confuse the issue. SirP's right on this one, needs a special controller...read on... RandyT |
| SirPoonga:
Right, either way you have to make the software. I think the right PIC with a max232 (or whatever that chip that converts ttl to serial) would be an elegant solution. Could get a serial to usb convertor for newer machines. I was looking at my dartboard. It does it with 19 pins. 11 for one contact sheet, 8 for the other. Quite interesting on how it does it. On one sheet one pin will account for the numbers 8 and 13, etc.. for each pair of numbers across form each other, and one for bullseye. That's the constact sheet with 11. The other sheet 4 pins handle one half of the board, the other 4 handle the other half. Within those 4 pins one pin handles single, one double, one triple, one part of the bullseye. How would one wire this up? Because it depends on the circuit that is being completed. There is no ground. How would you wire this to a keyboard encoder? The encoder would have to know when player 1 button 1 and player 2 button two completed the circuit to each other. I don;t see how this could be done with a keyboard encoder. If pics need to be take to understand the dartboard I can do that. |
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